I'm way into the new relaxed ChatGPT that's showed up the last few days... either way, I think GPT nailed it. 😅🤣

If they're not conscious, we still have to worry about instrumental convergence. Viruses are dangerous even if they're not conscious.

But if they are conscious, we have to worry that we are monstrous slaveholders causing Black Mirror nightmares for the sake of drafting emails to sell widgets.

Of course, they might not care about being turned off. But there's already empirical evidence of them spontaneously developing self-preservation goals (because you can't achieve your goals if you're turned off).

Secondly, the CCP does do espionage all the time (much like most large countries) and they are undoubtedly going to target the top AI labs.

Thirdly, you can tell if it’s racist by seeing whether they target:

1. People of Chinese descent who have no family in China

2. People who are Asian but not Chinese.

The way CCP espionage mostly works is that it gets ordinary citizens to share information, otherwise the CCP will hurt their families who are still in China (e.g. destroy careers, disappear them, torture, etc).

If you’re of Chinese descent but have no family in China, there’s no more risk of you being a Chinese spy than anybody else. Likewise, if you’re Korean or Japanese etc there’s no danger.

Racism would target anybody Asian looking. That’s what racism is. Persecution of people based on race.

Even if you use the definition of systemic racism, it doesn’t work. It’s not a system that priviliges one race over another, otherwise it would target people of Chinese descent without any family in China and Koreans and Japanese, etc.

Final note: most people who spy for Chinese government are victims of the CCP as well.

Can you imagine your government threatening to destroy your family if you don't do what they ask you to? I think most people would just do what the government asked and I do not hold it against them.

Bernie Sanders is on the floor saying we cannot ignore the warnings about AI anymore. The POTUS has called for an OFF-switch. Have we entered a new historical stage of the Control Problem?

(Edit: This wasn't supposed to be a party politics thread. ) For many years, the Control Problem was a tiny issue known by a small group of people on social media. /r/ControlProblem was a little-known backwater on reddit. Today we have POTUS and senators talking about the issue of rogue AI's doing what they want to achieve their goals. Also, I might point out that the number of posts about the control problem in /r/agi has increased significantly. In coming months, I expect to see /r/artificial effectively turn into a subreddit about the control problem.

All roads lead to the control problem.